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From: yuan@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Yuan 'Hacker' Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Multitasking revisited
Message-ID: <4522@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 6 Aug 89 10:41:13 GMT
References: <8908041840.AA00412@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: yuan@uhccux.UUCP (Yuan 'Hacker' Chang)
Organization: Univ. of Barbarians.  Honolulu, Hawaii
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In article <8908041840.AA00412@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> 01659@AECLCR.BITNET (Greg Csullog) writes:
-Some netters replied to my first sermon on multitasking with the classical
-response about doing something else while downloading files. Hell, you do
-not need a multitasking environment to do this, just get a hold of one of
-the telecom packages on the market that allows backgound file transfers.
-
-You don't need a full blown multitasking environment for something as simple
-as file transfers in the background!

	Alright!  8)  If I want to run spell-checking on a document in
my word processor, heck, re-write the word processor so that it
runs in the background.  After all, I don't need a full blown
multitasking environment for something as simple as spell-checking in
the background.  While I'm at it, I might as well re-write my database
manager so that it'll generate reports, re-index, and sort in the
background; re-write my spreadsheet program so that it'll recalculate
in the background; re-write the CAD program so that it'll re-draw in the
background.  
	Hmmm, I think I'll be one old fool by the time I'm done making
changes to all these programs so that I could do something as simple as
spell-check, recalc, report generation, re-index, sort, and re-draw in the
background without needing a full blown multitasking environment.  Not to
mention that my CS prof will probably hit me on the head with the complete
Unix manuals...  8)
	I hope by now you'll realize that by having a multitasking
environment, both the user and the developer will not have to worry about
how to get a program to run concurrently with another, because the system
takes care of that for you.  
-- 
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